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Rajin, North Korea: Female soldiers guard the entrance to the port at the North Korean special economic zone of Rason City
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Juan Fernández islands, Chile: A parachute carrying aid is dropped by a military plane, which is helpin in the rescue search after a plane crash
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Somalia: Members of Islamist group Al-Shabaab ride in pick-up trucks after distributing relief to people at Ala Yaasir camp
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Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA: Residents walk between beach houses surrounded by high surf after tropical storm Lee
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Niamey, Niger: Soldiers at the African Cup of Nations 2012 qualifying match between South Africa and Niger
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President Barack Obama gets a hug from a boy upon his arrival in Newark, New Jersey September 4, 2011. Obama was in New Jersey to tour damage caused by the rain-swollen Passaic River in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene
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Venetians in historical dress row down the Grand Canal during a race for youths in Venice September 4, 2011. On the first Sunday of every September, hundreds of Venetians pile into the long boats that have plied the city's canals for centuries for the "Regata Storica" (Historical Regatta), a historical procession that commemorates the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, wife of the King of Cyprus, in 1489 after she renounced her throne in favor of Venice.
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Anti-Gaddafi fighters drive vehicles past a plane destroyed by a NATO airstrike in a military base of Hamis brigade some 35 km (22 miles) north of Bani Walid, Libya September 4, 2011.
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Girls perform in an auditorium in Rajin, at the Special Economic Zone of Rason city, northeast of Pyongyang, North Korea August 29, 2011
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica (L) takes the baton from Yohan Blake, as Darvis Patton of the U.S. (C) falls before handing the baton to teammate Walter Dix (R), during the men's 4x100 meter relay final at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu September 4, 2011. Jamaica set a new world record with a time of 37.04 seconds.
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Fans use a zip line during the premiere of the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" in Los Angeles, California September 2, 2011. The game goes on sale later this year
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Phillips Idowu of Britain competes during the men's triple jump final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu September 4, 2011.
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A U.S. soldier from Task Force Bronco, HHC 2-27 Infantry Battalion watches a movie on his laptop while resting inside a transit billeting tent in Forward Operating Base Fenty in Jalalabad, September 4, 2011.
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The Burning Man 2011 "Rites of Passage" arts and music festival is seen in this aerial view taken in the Black Rock desert of Nevada September 3, 2011. More than 50,000 people from all over the world have gathered at the sold out festival which is celebrating its 25th year.
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Sergey Bakulin of Russia throws away a bottle of water during the men's 50 km race walk final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu September 3, 2011.
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Rick Porche walks through his flooded yard as Tropical Storm Lee slowly makes landfall in Lafitte, Louisiana September 4, 2011. Tropical Storm Lee crawled onto southern Louisiana's coast on Sunday as New Orleans prepared for one of the biggest tests of its flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005. The National Hurricane Center said the slow-moving storm could dump up to 20 inches of rain from the central Gulf Coast northward into the Tennessee Valley through Sunday and cause extensive flooding and flash flooding.
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Fire-fighters try to extinguish a fire at the Dudhsagar dairy in the Mehsana district of the western Indian state of Gujarat September 3, 2011. At least six people are feared to be dead and about a dozen injured in the fire that broke out in the dairy due to a leakage in a gas pipeline passing from a storage tank near the milk powder manufacturing department. A blast in the boiler was also later reported, fire officials and local media said on Sunday.
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Workers prepare a creation by Dutch artist Andrei Roiter named "The Future" before the opening ceremony of the ninth Krasnoyarsk museum biennial in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk September 2, 2011. Organisers said more than 50 modern artists from Russia, France, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Poland, Austria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries are taking part in the biennial, which will be held over the next two months.
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"Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies.
U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan rebels. A government report circulated Tuesday said extremists were observed “strategizing” on Internet forums about how to set up an Islamist state in Libya after the regime of Col. Gadhafi is defeated.
“Several forum participants have suggested that, following a transitional stage, the battle should turn against secularist rebels and members of the [rebels’] Transitional National Council,” the unclassified report stated.
Some U.S. officials sought to play down the remarks by noting that such Internet postings are not always accurate measures of jihadist plans.
The report said the jihadists’ strength and influence on the ground “are uncertain at this time.”
However, the report said the jihadist plotting coincided with the high-profile emergence of Abu Abdallah al-Sadiq, a former leader of the al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and now a leading rebel. He is currently known as Abdel Hakim al-Khulidi Belhaj and led rebels in overrunning Col. Gadhafi’s Tripoli compound.
A U.S. official familiar with intelligence reports on the region said there are concerns that some LIFG members remain committed to al Qaeda and others may be temporarily renouncing their ties to the terrorist group for “show.”"
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Black Lab jumps into the Tremont Pool during the annual "Doggy Dip" in Upper Arlington, Ohio. With most people abandoning public swimming pools as the weather cools down, those pools are opening themselves up for canine customers. More and more central Ohio public pools are hosting open swims for dogs. The chlorine content is reduced for the canines, and pool staff thoroughly cleans the filters before opening for humans the next summer
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Robey Harrison (R), a member of the 'Signs' Pentecostal denomination, an amalgam of Christianity and folk beliefs unique to Appalachia, anoint Betty Payne (C) with oil during an evening service at the Church of the Lord Jesus in Jolo, West Virginia, September 3. The church hosts one of the last Signs denominations in the country, which encourages worshipers to speak in tongues and to handle serpents. Popular throughout Appalachia in the 1920s, the practice is rooted in a Biblical passage from the Book of Mark
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An Egyptian protester spray-paints the words "Egyptians want the fall of the wall" on a wall of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo September 4. Egypt has walled off Israel's embassy in Cairo after tensions between the two countries sparked a series of angry protests that reached a climax last month when a demonstrator scaled the building and removed the Israeli flag. As work began on the wall a few days ago, many Egyptians gathered nearby to show their displeasure.
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A horse and the wreckage of a car stand beside a cornfield in the village of Asmar, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Sept. 5.
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A wildfire burns out of control in Bastrop State Park near Bastrop, Texas, on Sept. 5. The fire has burned over fourteen thousand acres and destroyed hundreds of homes. With much of the state of Texas under severe drought wildfires continue to spring up burning thousands of acres.
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Allen Hoffman runs down the driveway of Patrick McAlister's house as fires move closer and smoke covers the house as wildfires burns out of control near Bastrop on Sept. 5.
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Riot police clash with anti-Mubarak demonstrators in front of the police academy where former Egyptian president Hosni Murbarak is on trial in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 5. Demonstrators scuffled with police outside the court where the trial of Mubarak resumed on Monday, when senior policemen were due to give the first witness testimony.
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Amanda Knox is reflected in a computer screen as she attends court in Perugia, Italy, on Sept. 5. Knox, the US student convicted of killing her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy three years ago, returned to court on Monday for an appeal hearing.
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Mayor Cox Elorde of Bunawan township in the southern Phillipines' Agusan del Sur Province, pretends to measure a huge crocodile which was captured by residents and crocodile farm staff along a creek in Bunawan on Sept. 4. Elorde said Monday that dozens of villagers and experts ensnared the 21-foot male crocodile along a creek in his township after a three-week hunt. It was one of the largest crocodiles to be captured alive in the Philippines in recent years.
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A damaged helicopter sits as a large wildfire burns to the southwest of Tehachapi, Calif., on Sept. 4. A single-engine Cessna 210 went down in Blackburn Canyon near the small community of Tehachapi, sparking a raging brush fire that sent up a huge plume of smoke visible for miles around, according to Kern County fire department spokesman Cary Wright.
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A railway line is washed away by floodwaters in Nachikatsuura
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A landslide in Gojo, Nara prefecture
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Balinese having their teeth filed during a ‘Mepandes’ ceremony in Denpasar on Tuesday. ‘Mepandes’ is an important rite of passage for Balinese Hindus that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood
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Deadly pigeon virus found in Victoria of Australia
CANBERRA, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A rare virus that can be contracted by humans has killed a large number of Victorian pigeons after being detected in the Australian state for the first time, Agriculture Department confirmed on Tuesday.
According to the Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Mark Schipp, the avian paramyxo virus has already started killing some hobby birds, and threatens to spread to Victoria's chicken population.
He said the affected birds have died suddenly in large numbers and have sometimes appeared tired or have shown neurological signs such as circling or head flicking before death.
He added that the bug can also cause conjunctivitis or influenza-like symptoms in humans.
"The virus causes only mild, short-term conjunctivitis or influenza-like symptoms (in humans)," Australia Associated Press quoted Schipp as reporting on Tuesday.
"Human infection with this virus is extremely rare and usually occurs only in people who have close direct contact with infected birds."
At this stage, there are no reports of the virus causing disease in wild birds, but the Australian Wildlife Health Network has been asked to monitor the situation.